A hummingbird at rest

My home is on fire.

View of the Bobcat fire in Angeles National Forest from out my hotel window

I dream of breathing easier on a wilderness trail, while I sleep in a stale hotel room in the daytime, and work at a nursing home at night.

I wonder if hummingbirds, due to their small size, ever find themselves swept away in a storm, and end up hundreds of miles from their familiar territory, confused and hungry for homegrown nectar.

Chinook Pass, WA. August, 2020.

I feel that way. Swept away. Ready to find my ground again.

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